Weapon #56, written by Martin Pegler, covers Sharpshooting Rifles of the Civil War: Colt, Spencer ... softbound book sells for about $20 US on line and from Osprey. ISBN 978-1-4728-1591-0.

Before the start of the American Civil War in 1861 ... The 21st’s rifles had been previously issued to Berdan’s Sharpshooters and were equipped with 37 1⁄2” barrels.

Alpheus Starkey Williams was a lawyer, judge, and journalist who served as a Union general in the American Civil War ... Hiram Berdan was the inventor of the Berdan rifle, as well as numerous ...

56), having a rifle capable of accurate shooting in excess of 500 yds. was of little use if the men using them had not been properly trained, and the tactics on the Civil War battlefields remained ...

May 9, 1857 — In 1857, the United States was ... the end of the Civil War. As tensions mounted, John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general from Alabama, formed the Lexington Rifles in 1857.

Sudan's government on Friday denied US allegations that it had used chemical weapons in the country's bloody civil war last year, a day after Washington said it would impose sanctions.

"I mean, they want to call us the Nazis and their ... Do you want a civil war? I don't want a civil war. I don't want to have to draw my rifle. I want to make this problem go away with my ...